Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Walls of barn to NW of Gelli Galed Farmhouse
Crynant, Neath Port Talbot, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Agriculture and Subsistence
- Date of designation
- 4 June 1987
- Locality
- Treforgan
- Town
- Neath
- Community
- Crynant
- Unitary authority
- Neath Port Talbot
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.73206, -3.76047
- Cadw reference
- 11849
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1636 "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Set across hillside within the farmyard enclosure to rear of Gelli Galed Farmhouse.
History
Simple C18 hay/corn barn at right angles to house.
Exterior
Barn, rubble walls with dressed quoins and vents, originally with wooden A-frame trusses supporting slate roof. Roof is now entirely collapsed as is the porch on W side. Some timber lintels remain.
Interior
Orginally had 5-bay roof and threshing floor.
Reason for designation
Included for group value with Gelli Galed Farmhouse.
Nearby in the register
- Gelli Galed FarmhouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Chapel of ease to the Church of St MargaretReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Ynys-y-bont BridgeTransportunder 1 mi
- Mynydd March Hywel Round CairnRound Cairnunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.